Yeah, unfortunately our neighbors also cut down and chopped like crazy, terrible. That wouldn't fly with me, we're now also the only ones here who still have non-halved trees standing. But you can see on our trees that the previous owner went about it pretty much the same way. The main trunk was cut down each time and a stump left standing, from which a new shoot then grew. But I didn't move to the forest to cut everything down. Where there is now too much of a gap because of the neighboring chainsaw massacre, I simply plant everything back up again (distances are observed!). The effect of "more light and air!" for the neighbors is therefore quite limited. But I just don't like it bare. And if I want light, I go outside, I don't need a "light-flooded house."